Jelly Racing 240Z Track Car

So I've been a registered member for a few months now so thought I'd finally throw up our project to share.

Jelly Racing consists of my mate and I originally who shared a Yellow 280ZX (you may remember the pic from my introduction).

The name came from our names which are James Kelly and Danny Jupp.. Jupp..Kelly.. Jelly.. and were fat haha.

So anyway - here goes.

We purchased the shell from the VP of the QLD Z Club in mid January as he and his race partner had moved onto another 240Z Project.

This is us picking it up -

Yea we'll take it..

Something we prepared earlier.

We decided it would be easier to just get it back to the shed then strip out everything Dusty was keeping for him to take home.

The plan was to paint the car for the only reason was that for every sticker that came off the car so did the paint.

First up was the engine bay, interior and under carriage. For this we just used black Hammertone from Bunnings.

We weren't looking for a show car finish - far from it. It's a Track Car we planned to just give it a once over fix to stop paint peeling off left and right.

Lucky enough we stuck to our plan - threw on plenty of the pink stuff and primed it... rubbed it back... primed it.... rubbed it back. Incase anyone didn't know.. this sucked but it was our first time doing a paint job so at least we can say we did it.

The fact we didn't have the money to splurge on paint but managed to get a mate to 'sponsor' us some industrial enamel we had the following choices of colours -

Royal Blue, Canary Yellow, Some Purple colour (quickly shut down), Red, Shamrock Green and Jet Black.

After much debating and mind changing it came down to "what's your favourite colour on a car?" well the answer is below..

For a garage job and from some guys who had never done any body work before I think it's come up pretty well. Sure black's a sh!t of a thing to keep good, but as long as it looks good from 10-20ft away who cares.. that's what stickers are for 

James

Great start to the journal.

What sort of time frame did you get that done in? looks quick in the pics

Paint only went on last weekend so it took us nearly 3 months but we've been doing a lot of other stuff in the meantime like engine, suspension etc.

The original plan was to have it all done within a 6 month time frame but it mostly comes down to finances - we can only put away so much per week into it.

James

Original plan was to take the running gear from our old 280ZX but when a mates near new engine came up for grabs we jumped on it.

He'd spent quite a bit of money building an L28 for his 280Z LHD Targa Car. He drove it to Targa, did Targa and drove back doing 6000k's all up then pulled the engine out and did a LS1 conversion.

Engine Specs are as follows -

Hot tanked P54 Block

Bored 40 Thou. New flat top pistons & rings

N42 Cyl Head – Crack tested and machined

New bearings – Big End and Mains

Fully balanced

New Camshaft Nissan 812C 495 thou lift

New Rocker Gear & Lash Pads

New High Volume Oil Pump

New Timing Chain and Sprockets

New Adjustable Timing Gear

SW Motorsport Harmonic Balancer

New Electric Water Pump (CSR)

Fully Modified Fuel Injected Inlet Manifold

New Alloy Fuel Rail and Pressure Gauge

Enlarged Throttle Body

New Nissan R32 Injectors

Fully Balanced and Lightened Flywheel

Competition Velvet Touch Button Clutch & Pressure Plate

Extractors

MSD Master Blaster Coil/Fully Modified Electronic Distributor

MSD 6-AL

V500 Wolf Computer

Modified and Baffled Sump

For suspension we went with some Tokico Adjustable Shocks and Ground Control Weld on Coil Over's with Eibach springs. Were going to be running 325 fronts and 300 backs.

We got a 4 speed close ratio box with the engine but we already had a 5 speed Z box that had recently been rebuilt so we'll be running that until we kill it and will then consider a RB20 box or something similar.

We also picked up some 4.8 Diff Gears to replace the 3.7s we have eventually and most likely get in contact with Ben for an LSD.

James

Looks good mate but your pics are too small

Sorry fellas seemed fine on my monitor.

For the time being you can see them all here - Link to Album

Next update I will make them bigger.

James

This car competed in Gatton Sprints 2010.  I'm sure I saw it in a pit accross from ours! I remember the sticker on the back window.  It was reasonably quick too.

Well done guys

Good to see your putting life back into the old girl

the previous owners have set a "high benchmark" for that car (performance wise)

Looks like your developing a great fun package to go racing!

hehe yeah same car. The stickers staying on the car, just crossing out the 40mm webers and putting injection   Also we left Dustys 'Air Brake' Dent in the back after his spin off onto the straight at LapZ much to his disgust.

Engine and all the front end went in on Saturday so I'll try and get some pics up tonight.

James

Did you do any structural maint work to the body? Most S30's need a bit of TLC that way every now and then. Anyway here is some incar showing that car in all its former glory at Lakeside LapZ last year, 4:00 on.

Did you do any structural maint work to the body? Most S30's need a bit of TLC that way every now and then. Anyway here is some incar showing that car in all its former glory at Lakeside LapZ last year, 4:00 on.

 

There were some pretty weak spots in the Chassis, looks like at some stage its had a shunt on the front left side so there's definitely going to be some welding done to fix that up.

We had to strengthen the drivers side floor which was causing the rail to be pretty flimsy.

There's plans for a cage at some stage in the near future but for the time being we just want to get out there and start having some fun again.

Thanks for the vid, that must of been Cameron's run as Dusty only had one before coming off 

James

Sounds good, lots of fun coming up for sure

Been awhile since an update we've been pretty busy with the car.

Managed to drop the engine and and get the rest of the drive line in.

Got all the suspension bolted up.

Had the car polished and waxed, also put all our decals on.

Fuel pumps, fuel lines, radiator mounted.

Bolted on our brakes.

Unfortunately now our wheels don't fit due to the brakes so were up for some new wheels and tread.

Seat & Harness are now in and steering wheel, just waiting on our Dash to arrive; Hopefully that's today.

Still have to get it wired up so that will happen once our wheels & tyres arrive and we can take it to someone.

Also a bunch of fiddly bits but nothing to stressful at all.

Anyway will throw some pics up now 

I REALLY LIKE THIS!

Thanks man! Paint came up surprisingly well for Industrial Enamel lol

Dash just arrived 

Thanks man! Paint came up surprisingly well for Industrial Enamel lol

 

 

paint finish looks good, what brand of paint did you use?

paint finish looks good, what brand of paint did you use?

Paint brand is Protec - Jet Black. We laid 2 thick coats and a wet coat.

Let it dry for 2 months and gave it a very light buff then hand polish and wax.

Looks excellent! Nice and mean. Hoping to see it in the flesh one day? Coming to the next nationals in Vic?

Definitely will have to drag it down for that - hopefully it's still in one piece by then.

Cool build

Love the jdm as f sticker

Ash

Fuck yes, that looks awesome!!  I love the gloss black, I want to do mine in that now lol. 

hey guys,

Been awhile since an update.. for financial reasons we had to put the car on hold a few months but were back in action now.

Sparky is booked in so that will be the last of major things to do before some adjusting.

Anyway, here's a pic, hope you like . Will get some more up tomorrow when I have some better light and can finally give it a wash outside...

mate that looks so good well done i think this may be my favorite car on the forum

Looks mad James

Plans? We need a few more quick sprint blokes, the present lot are getting complacent and need a stir